Truck fire, dog rescue, Beacon booted: North Portland week in review

View full sizeA lovely Sunday, April 22. "Perfect end to a lovely day in #pdx. At the Bluff with the rest of #NoPo" from @LayZ1129 on the Nopo hashtag on Twitter.

Hello NoPo,

Welcome to the North Portland News Roundup, now at it’s new spot on the calendar. There’s a perfect spring Monday out there and what better way to start the day than with a review of the last week's news cultivated from the most nutritious and delicious news sources on the web.

Student journalists were not included in the moving negotiations — “There was no discussion, no constructive dialogue, no compromise, no productive brainstorming,” writes Beacon columnist Bruce Garlinghouse — and they will be displaced by .¤.¤. Campus Ministry, which has long coveted that 1,100-square-foot space. As Father Gary Chamberland, the director of Campus Ministry, told The Beacon’s Sarah Hansell, “I’m not trying to be gloating, but we won this one.”

Meanwhile, two dogs were rescued from a house fire in Overlook. Neighbor Chris Heaps saved little brown mutt Pika from JoAnne Nomeland’s burning house and Portland Fire and Rescue pulled a cowering white Lab named Hannah from the home shortly afterwards. Both dogs were fine, though Pika was scheduled to be put down on the next day for cancer. Oh well, good effort people, good effort.

Back in St. Johns, The O reported that Roughrider wrestling coach Donnie McPherson has moved over to become the school’s track and field coach (how's that for fine grain local news coverage?)

April 19

The Portland Tribune did a lovely long article on Mississippi Avenue’s Sunlan Lighting and Kay Newell a.k.a. “The Light Bulb Lady.” Newell is a long time Boise neighborhood activist. The piece is worth a read if only to learn that, according to Newell, you are not suppose to turn your compact florescent lights off. (I can just remember all the times my ex nagged me for leaving the lights on in the living room. I was right, damnit!!!)